5 Tools to Amp Up Your Keyboard Rig
What will it take to amp up your keyboard rig? Try these five tips to get ready for your gigging.
Musician Tips
Tips and reviews for musicians from Stan Stewart (aka muz4now)
Music Losses: The Elephant In The #COVID19 Room
I don’t know if I’ll leave this post here. It’s difficult to predict if the music losses will be short or long term. But it became obvious that anything I could write about would be avoiding the most prevalent and obvious subject: coronavirus or COVID-19. Don’t Work: Stay Safe Music losses may not be the
Do Your Headphones Hurt Your Ears When Practicing Piano? Learn How to Play Pain-Free
When you are practicing the piano, you might want to use headphones to keep your playing private. There are lots of reasons for wanting to avoid your practice being audible to others, and headphones are the best way to do this. However, wearing headphones while playing piano can start to hurt your ears after a
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Creating Music: What Twitter Teaches Us About Songwriting
Inspiration often comes from surprising places. Not surprisingly, some may say that Twitter and music-making don’t mix. So, it’s quite true that I never expected social networks to be a source of such strange inspiration, but there you go: since social networks are a reflection of human interaction in some form or another, they’re filled
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3 Ways FaceBook Can Kill Your Creativity
There: I said it. Of course, in addition to FaceBook, it probably applies equally to Twitter, TikTok, and any other social network you can name. Even the social sharing sites like YouTube, Instagram, and others also could be equally as “deadly”. I think you’ll see what I mean. 1 – Social Networks Suck Social networks
Indie Recording Studio – How to Tune Your Room
You’ve decided to record your next track in your home studio: how can you tune your room?
String Quartet Library Quick Comparison Video
Here’s a brief video comparing a quartet of solo violin, viola, cello, and string bass sounds in some orchestral libraries.
Quick Orchestral String Library Comparison Video
In a quick comparison video, Stan Stewart compares 8 orchestra string libraries. Check out the results and add your responses.
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Integrity, Self-discovery, and Self-deceit
Stan Stewart explores integrity, self-discovery, and self-deceit from the vantage point of creative artistry.
Learning the music tech that helped make “Magic” new
There are so many ways that technology can help. And so many ways that it won’t. I’m learning lots about each of these. I’ve already told a story about the ways that tech doesn’t fix anything. Though I had tools that could have helped, I rushed through the first version of “Magic” to meet a
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